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Post by Zero on Nov 17, 2014 21:31:46 GMT -4
Link: A Worm's Mind in a Lego BodyTaking a short break from my story, I was looking at a few articles when this caught my eye. It ultimately boils down to these questions: Is the robot a C. elegans in a different body or is it something quite new? Is it alive?The neurons of the worm were simulated, but not programmed, and yet the behaviors manifested. In a past thread, it was pointed out how Jenny Wakeman was created to be a defensive robot, but her design as a teenage robot consequently led to her human behaviors. Whether or not Nora intended this isn't really addressed, though she did question why she made her a teenager. It makes you wonder what constitutes life as these technologies are developed. Like the article says, it's a question for the philosophers. What do you think?
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Post by Agai Lazen on Nov 18, 2014 23:40:07 GMT -4
What constitutes life...well, if you think about it all life is engineered to some degree. However, I think artificial life has a more exponential rate of growth than organic life because of it's manufactured nature. It would take centuries of selective breeding to create a space-worthy species, whereas it only took years to develop the mars drone.
So yeah, I think the border between organic and bionic grows thinner as technology advances, but will that difference in growth remain?
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Post by Zero on Nov 19, 2014 19:58:39 GMT -4
Absolutely. DNA is only a base with which endless configuration can produce a near endless variety of lifeforms. That's how we get Doomsday. I think there will always be a clear difference between organic and bionic. The Transformers are a good example of that. Living metal, but far from organic. As for growth, I guess it would depend on how long it would take for AI to learn and apply the concept of imagination, which presets all ideas and innovation.
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Post by Agai Lazen on Nov 19, 2014 20:59:44 GMT -4
Speaking of living machines, do you think Humanity will survive space travel? Because as it is, space travel has devastating effects. Bone deformation and weakening, space radiation, etc. We'd have to find a way to generate enhanced gravity if we want to make space travel a mainstay of human civilization.
Or, we could eventually replace our bodies with non-organic components. The lack of growth means there won't be any bone deformation from lack of gravity, and the lack of surface area of skin decreases the chance for skin cancer from space radiation.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2018 19:39:54 GMT -4
Interesting.
I can provide some concepts worth understanding.
All forms of matter, space, and life, have data. So such idea to implement a worms brain into a machine, without affecting the consciousness of the worm, is a scientific philosophy that needs to be focused more often. The data from a biological body has been transferred to a non-biological, artificial body. Advancements in these experiments made me think about these protocols deeply. I still do to this day.
However, science will find the truth to our existence. Even the term "science" itself, in the Oxford Dictionary, means: The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
Such philosophy, indeed, needs more attention.
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